Sustainable North

BY Adam Wasch, Energy Outreach Consultant for CCHRC and UAF CES
Energy Focus: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner May 28th, 2009, Section A3
Don’t keep an open bucket of smoldering ashes in your house. If it doesn’t burn your house down, the carbon monoxide emissions can kill you. This simple fact escaped me during my first winter in Alaska. [...]

[Read more →]

BY Adam Wasch, Energy Outreach Consultant for CCHRC and UAF CES
Energy Focus: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner May 21st, 2009, Section A3
There were kids whose toys were not powered and those whose toys were. Batteries made the difference. I was a powerless kid. My toys only went as far as I could throw them. My best friend [...]

[Read more →]

BY Adam Wasch, Energy Outreach Consultant for CCHRC and UAF CES
Energy Focus: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner May 14th, 2009, Section A3
It’s not easy recycling in Fairbanks. Just as soon as you load your vehicle full of cans, bottles, and plastics to drop off at the last place you took them, it turns out that whoever accepted [...]

[Read more →]

From the New York Times on Thursday, February 5, 2009:
President Obama ordered the Energy Department on Thursday to immediately draft long-overdue standards to make a variety of appliances and light bulbs more energy efficient.
Over the last three decades, Congress has demanded stricter efficiency standards on 30 categories of products, as varied as residential air-conditioners and [...]

[Read more →]

From the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner on Wednesday, February 4, 2009:
Moving to Alaska two years ago brought a lot of changes to my life, but one of the biggest was what happened to my skin.
The Last Frontier’s forested landscape was a feast for my urban eyes, but it wrought havoc on my face. When I went [...]

[Read more →]

From npr.org on Monday, February 23, 2009:
People in the business of weatherizing homes are expecting to profit from the new economic stimulus plan. The federal aid package sets aside $5 billion worth of spending for making homes and buildings more energy-efficient. The idea is to save energy, create jobs — and even perhaps slow global [...]

[Read more →]

From Yale University’s environment360, posted on 11/26/08, retrieved on Friday, February 27, 2009:
Yale Environment 360: You have called energy efficiency “the largest, cheapest, safest, cleanest, fastest way to provide energy services.” How do you quantify that claim? For example, how large, how cheap, how fast?
Amory Lovins: Oh, for example, in the United States we could [...]

[Read more →]

From the Washington Post on Thursday, May 7, 2009:
There was a time when choosing paint for a home mostly meant mulling over color swatches (”Sahara or Sandy Beach?”). Now, for many homeowners, there’s also the pressing issue of being green: finding paint that not only looks good but is environmentally friendly or, at the very [...]

[Read more →]

From the New York Times, published on April 1, 2009:
In honor of spring and the ongoing quest for the perfect lawn, the Green Home asked Bill Duesing, an educator with the Northeast Organic Farming Association, a nonprofit group devoted to sustainable farming and gardening, for tips on achieving an attractive yard without wreaking environmental havoc.
Click [...]

[Read more →]

From the New York Times on Sunday, May 10, 2009:
Most people think of LEDs as the lights blinking from inside electronic devices. They are being used increasingly to light rooms, though few people have ever bought them.
“In the U.S., 78 percent of the public is completely unaware that traditional light bulbs will be phased out [...]

[Read more →]